Long-Leaf Varnish Tree is a tall tree with white bark.
Leaves are 1-2 ft long, very narrowly obovate or inverted-lanceshaped,
long-pointed, thinly leathery, hairless, glaucous beneath, nerves 20-25
pairs. Leaf-stalk is very short and thick. Flowers are borne in large
panicles which are finely velvet-hairy. Flowers are white, about 3 mm
in diameter. Fruiting panicle is 1.5 ft long, with spreading decurved
branches. Fruits are oblong. Long-Leaf Varnish Tree is found in NE
India, in Assam, Arunachal Pradesh, Mizoram, Manipur, and in Myanmar
and Bangladesh.
Medicinal uses: Bark and fruits are used
medicinally. Juice from the bark and the rind of of fruit is poisonous.